Water has a significant impact on the properties of building materials. A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer can be used to detect water in materials and measure its distribution nondestructively, rapidly, accurately. In this paper, novel method is introduced for using single-sided NMR content (WC) materials, including brick, sandstone, mortar, concrete. The signal intensity these we...

We present some techniques for handling planning problems with numerical expressions that can be specified using the standard planning language PDDL. These techniques are implemented in LPG, a fully-automated planner based on local search that was awarded at the third international planning competition (2002). First, we present a plan representation for handling numerical expressions called Num...

The ParLPG planning system is based on the idea of using a generic algorithm configuration procedure – here, the well-known ParamILS framework – to optimise the performance of a highly parametric planner on a set of problem instances representative of a specific planning domain. This idea is applied to LPG, a versatile and efficient planner based on stochastic local-search with 62 parameters an...

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In [4] we put in relation graphs with Dilworth number at most two and the two classes LPG and mLPG. In order to prove this relation, we have heavily exploited a result we deduced from [1]. We have now realized that this result is not always true, so in this corrigendum we correctly restate the result concerning the relation between graphs with Dilworth number at most two and the two classes of ...

We present LPG, a fast planner using local search for solving planning graphs. LPG can use various heuristics based on a parametrized objective function. These parameters weight different types of inconsistencies in the partial plan represented by the current search state, and are dynamically evaluated during search using Lagrange multipliers. LPG’s basic heuristic was inspired by Walksat, whic...

Pasteurella multocida causes sporadic or epidemic diseases among different animal species, including focal and systemic infections in humans. Penicillin is the drug of choice for treatment of Pasteurella infections, but third-generation cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones are a good alternative for betalactamase-producing strains or for allergic patients (1, 10). Quinolone resistance in gram-ne...

Brazilian intensive production of broiler chickens has stood out as an important livestock activity for the country and its main obstacle is the energy supply for birds’ ambience. Analysis of energy conversion processes based on exergy takes into account the quantity and quality of transformed energy. This concept can be applied to the production chain of broiler chickens, contributing to deter...

one of the main resonator factors in watershed soil erosion is inappropriateland management including conversion of pasture land to dry-land farming.unfortunately, the changes of gara su watershed usages have been very common.thus, in order to understand the influence of land use on runoff rate and soil loss, soillosses were investigated and determined under both pasture and dry-land agricultur...